A number of cities in and bordering Utah have formed a coalition to purchase nuclear power from a small modular reactor being planned at the Idaho National Laboratory, triggering the next phase in its development.

In an effort to ensure the continued viability and profitability of Idaho’s economically critical mining industry, state lawmakers and policymakers recently enacted the first major changes to the state’s mining law in 50 years.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to impose new national financial assurance requirements on the hardrock mining industry.

A task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council rejected a proposed resolution calling for the “pursuit of American Clean Energy Policy” at ALEC’s 2019 Annual Meeting, held August 14 through the August 16 in Austin, Texas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving two of its departments to Kansas City, and the U.S. Department of Interior is relocating the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is deciding the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) after hearing 90 minutes of arguments in a packed courtroom in New Orleans.

The number of physicians using telemedicine has grown by 20 percent over the last three years, with 15 percent of physicians currently engaged in telehealth, reports a first-of-its-kind analysis of providers’ interest in telehealth.